The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-16
Published by Request.l
Secretary'S Report of the Maryland
State Temperance Alliance.

greets you on this the morning of
our Fourteenth Anniversary, and
while it finds us one year nearer the
end of life's journey. it also finds us
one year nearer the accomplishment
of our object: The redemption of
our State from the tyranny of the
dram-trade the humiliation of a
traffic. which centres in itself the
fierce and consuming passions OF
appetite and GUarice an institution
which is the completion of trinity
of national witchcraft, sIa.
very and the salooon-the last soon
to follow its predecessors to oblivion:
grave, from whence, for it, there is nc
resurrection. These reforms never
60 backward.
To the man or woman who has
carefully observed the work of this
Alliance from its inception to the
present hour, the hand of the infinite
must be clearly visible, and in moth.
ing more visible, than in the won.
derful self-sacrificing devotion, eff.
cheney and tireless industry of the
two men-who, together, for fo( -
years, have adorned the position Of
President of this Alliance, AID, we
do also, most heartily congratulate
the Alliance on their selection of a
Treasurer, whose business ptegrity
aud financial ability are n4tters OF
record in the archives of tt general
government, and whose gnial affa-
bllity makes even busiDss inter-
course with him a pleasur.
During the past year from the
Alliance headquarters { this city,
through the mails, eDress COM
panies and by private conveyance,
there have gone out through the
State more than one Kindred thous-
and pages of Prohibition literature,
published by the Allia,ce, and in adj
dition to this nearly thirty thousand
pages from our stock On hand, and
that purchased from ne headquar'
tiers of the Nationa Temperance
Society, So Read stree. N. Y, which
is the largest Temperance publication
house on this continelt or any Other
in the world, end of which John n.
Stems, Esq, is the Napoleon LIST in
command. These DOCUMENTS so OBJ
tanned and distributed are mostly
from the pen and brans of DIR. Dor.
chester, Joseph Cook, John B. Finch
Miss Rose Cleveland, Mrs. j. Helen
Foster, and others, and are almost
exclusively on the line of Consttu'
tional Prohibition, and with telling
effect. Our own publications are
almost exclusively the work of our
own irrepressible President Higgins.
Oyer twenty-five hundred lettersapd
postal cards have been received frtm
the counties these letters show a
tidal wave of prohibition sentiment
higher than that of any preyiou;
year. They contain the names o
the members of our County ALI
ances, our local co-workers, AMI
while the names of our old local op
ton veterans are there, hundreds 0
influential names are added this yea
who were not with us before, bu
who are now just spelling for tn
coming contest-for prohibition.
amendment to the constitution of tn
State. These communications hay
all been answered by the Secretary
and he has written about as man.
more during the year. He has also
by the aid of the photograph, writ
ten and mailed over three thousan,
circulars for special purposes an,
emergencies. One of the most sue
cessful incidents in the history of tn
Alliance occurred late this year;
was the effort to consecrate the birth
day of Washington, the 22d of Fet
ruary, to the holding of mass-meet
ings throughout the State. in aid c
constitutional prohibition for Mary
land. If ever men worked for al
object, the President and Secretar.
did for this. scores of letters wer
written, circulars mailed and full
twenty thousand pages of specis
literature distributed for this pul
pose. and the result abundantly re
paid them, many of the best meet
ings ever held in the State oceurre
on that day. Constitutional Ameae,
ment Associations were formed an,
delegates from them are here to-day
and hundreds of similar meeting
will likely be held on the same da,
next year, and so on, till Prohibitio,
is imbedded in our organic law,
And now the Secretary will brief,
refer to a department of our work
for which he has little aptitude ant
less love, viz: the collection of fund
to carry on our work. This Who'll,
collection business has many win
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